35964Y298 Have you ever reflected on the fact that

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'DESPITE
THE HORRORS OF WAR, IT IS AT LEAST A BIG THING?
I mean to say that in it one is brought face to face with realities!
The follies, selfishness, luxury and general pettiness of the vile commercial
sort of existence led by nine-tenths of the people of the world in peacetime are replaced
in war by a savagery that is at least more honest and outspoken. Look at it this way: in peacetime
one just lives one's own little life, engaged in trivialities, worrying about one's own comfort, about money
matters, and all that sort of thing - just living for one's own self? Whàt a sordid life it is! In war, on the other
hand, even if you do get killed you only anticipate the inevitable by a few years in any case, and you have
the satisfaction of knowing that you have 'pegged out' in the attempt to help your country? You have, in fact,
realised an ideal, which, as far as I can see, you very rarely do in ordinary life! The reason is that ordinary life
runs on a commercial & selfish basis; if you want to 'get on', as the saying is, you can't keep your hands clean.
Personally, I often rejoice that the War has come my way. It has made me realize what a petty thing life is
and I think that the War has given to everyone a chance to 'get out of himself', as I might say...
Certainly, speaking for myself, I can say that I have never in all my life experienced
such a wild exhilaration as on the commencement
of a last stunt, like the last April one
for example. The excitement
for the last half-hour
or so before it
is like nothing
on earth.'
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